Dr. Brown's Bottle for Colicky Babies

We tried it, and it works as advertised; since our kid is a pretty smooth eater, though, our results aren't terribly dramatic. Digging and asking around, I've found something of a cult of Dr. Brown's; apparently, it changes the lives of a lot of colicky kids and fussy eaters.

How does it work? Like any other vented bottle, the goal is to cut down or eliminate the air bubbles a baby takes in. Brown's does this with a sieve under the nipple attached to a vent that sits inside the bottle like a fat, Pulp Fiction-style syringe. One caveat: although it comes with a little wire scrub brush, the tiny openings might be a pain to clean without a dishwasher.

Foster: You should just write to Handicraft. My wife emailed them over the weekend to complain that the crummy wire brush was falling apart, and two days later we got an envelope with two newer! bigger! longer! brushes. No doubt they'd cough up a set of instructions; see the "Contact" page -- or just check out the animations:
www.handi-craft.com

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